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  • The footnotes are mostly citations to old English law reporters and to commentaries by writers such as Ihering, Bracton and Blackstone.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • Dilthey, _Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften_; Ihering, _Der Zweck im Recht_ (2 Bde.), 1886; Cathrein, _Moral.

    Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Archibald B. C. Alexander

  • Ihering, "is one of the most extraordinary undertakings of this kind known in history" [Globus, LX (1891), 179].

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • [2] R.v. Ihering: Scherz und Ernst in der Jurisprudenz.

    Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

  • Ihering [827] is of the opinion that agricultural occupations made the marking off of time a popular necessity, and this view is borne out by the early epithets of the months among the Babylonians, [828] which, as among the Hebrews, are connected with agriculture and the life of the agriculturist.

    The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

  • Ihering has endeavored to show [1311] by an argument that is certainly brilliant and almost convincing, that the settlement of

    The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

  • The mysterious appearance and disappearance of serpents and their strange twistings added an element in their case that increased the awe they inspired, while if Ihering be correct, [671] the omens derived from the flight of birds are a survival of the migratory period in the history of a nation, when birds served as a natural guide in choosing the easiest course to pass from one place to another.

    The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

  • Ihering observes [549] that the stars were observed by the Babylonians in the interest of navigation.

    The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

  • [606] See Ihering, _Vorgeschichte der Indo-Europaer_, pp. 182 _seq.

    The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

  • /4/Ihering, to be sure, a man of genius, took an independent start, and said that possession is ownership on the defensive; and that, in favor of the owner, he who is exercising ownership in fact (i.e. the possessor) is freed from the necessity of proving title against one who is in an unlawful position.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

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